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Gendered Crossings: Women and Migration in the Spanish Empire

Gendered Crossings: Women and Migration in the Spanish Empire

Poska, Allyson M.

Paperback

Series: Diálogos

Immigration & RefugeesSouth American History

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ISBN10: 0826356435
ISBN13: 9780826356437
Publisher: Unm Press
Published: Feb 15 2016
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Winner of the Best Book Prize from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women

Between 1778 and 1784 the Spanish Crown transported more than 1,900 peasants, including 875 women and girls, from northern Spain to South America in an ill-fated scheme to colonize Patagonia. The story begins as the colonists trudge across northern Spain to volunteer for the project and follows them across the Atlantic to Montevideo. However, before the last ships reached the Americas, harsh weather, disease, and the prospect of mutiny on the Patagonian coast forced the Crown to abandon the project. Eventually, the peasant colonists were resettled in towns outside of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, where they raised families, bought slaves, and gradually integrated into colonial society. Gendered Crossings brings to life the diverse settings of the Iberian Atlantic and the transformations in the peasants' gendered experiences as they moved around the Spanish Empire.

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